Comments on: Sweden: Judge Clears Rapist Because Victim Is A Trans Woman

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:58:09 +0000

Shocking that this could happen in Sweden. Rape is primarily about power,not sex, so the sexual orientation or gender status of the victim is immaterial, surely!? One wonders how they arrived at their anti discrimination legislation, if they felt it okay to exclude one specific group of people. That the Judge didn’t point out this disparity is depressing. Leaving it to the appeal court to define without expressing a strong anti rape stance in this case, irrespective of the current law, is feeble and inexcusable.

By: Mats Bogren

Mats Bogren — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 07:50:20 +0000

By the way, the earlier quote pertained to “affirmative action” or quotas in Sweden, just wanted to clarify that. Either way, sexism, racism and any and all kinda of biases and discriminations are wrong. My home country has become a “reverse sexism” or “revenge sexism” safe haven.

That was my main point.

Hej då

By: Mats Bogren

Mats Bogren — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 07:46:00 +0000

I’m a Swede (but moved to the US more than 10 years ago) and I totally agree with you. You said Sweden is very forward thinking but I have to say that this “forward thinking” is based on women’s rights only and often discount the male perspective. Divorces, child custody cases, etc. are mostly ruled in women’s favor no matter what the circumstances are, the judges in Sweden are notoriously pro-women, some call them pro-feminazi. I dislike Julian Assange (wikileaks) and think that his fears of Sweden extraditing him to the US are ridiculous. Having said that, he will never, I repeat, never get a fair trial in my home country – the prosecutor in his case is a renowned man-hater and no matter what he says, no matter what his defense will be, one way or the other they’ll convict him. He’s a man and therefore he must be guilty.

“Det handlar inte om att få in kvinnorna. Vi ska få ut männen.
Gudrun Schyman”
“It’s not about getting in more women. It’s about getting the men out”
Schyman – the former leader of the Swedish Leftist party (formerly known as the communist party of Sweden), later the leader of “Feministiskt initiativ” (Feminist Initiative).

This kind of attitude prevails in our judicial system, feminazism at its extreme. “This woman couldn’t be raped because she used to be a man. Only women get raped and men are always guilty.”

Sad but that’s how many of us see it, my wife too, and she’s pretty leftist in her views. When it comes to men versus women issues she thinks we’ve gone overboard and have become a reverse-sexist society.